Neighborhood Grocery Store - Food Front

Portland seems to be all about food and music. We'll get to the music another time.

In our area we have several food shopping choices. One you have seen already is the local Hillsdale Farmers Market.

Another is the "Food Front Cooperative" in town, a short walk. It is like a Rolling Oats, or Fresh Market. Most all of their products are organic from local farms, or from Sustainable Farms. You pay $5 a month membership, but you get more than that back in discounts, and eventually get to vote on company decisions.  So, I get to vote on what my local grocery store does and carries - cool.

Everything is great, and they have a bulk foods section - even carry sushi rice! Can't wait to get back to making sushi, we really got into the habit of it as an easy (yes, it is easy) evening movie dinner. I do spring rolls a lot, too. As long as Rose does not have to cook and clean up, I can basically make what I want to - LOL.

We have really been excited about the food here. Our other shopping choice is Fred Myers, a long walk, and it is a big store more like a Wegmans, Krogers, etc... but still has that Portland "Foodie" spin to it.

We are tying to adopt the "Eat lots of Vegetables and Fruit with a little meat" approach.
We listened to, and later purchased, the "Eating on the Wild Side" book about food, food history, how to buy it, store it, and cook it to get the most out of it. It was a real eye opener driving across the farm lands and experiencing the coast to coast travel as a head a broccoli, or lettuce. We could see them in the long trains heading east. No wonder the food tastes so good our here; it is all grown out here. I was not too lively after that coast to coast trip myself and I was not even gassed in a rail car to make me dormant.

Getting gassed in a rail car may be good for an evening out, but I'll have to leave that to the younger generation. Cheers, from Captain Dave, aka "Hey, Old Man".